Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 9
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure 150 61 63
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 13.10% 9.70% 13.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.38% 31.77% 39.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 46 47
10th Percentile £400 £281 £407
25th Percentile £453 £341 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £449 £507
Median % change year-on-year +15.55% -11.54% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £527 £614
90th Percentile £679 £569 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 424 192 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 37.03% 30.52% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 147 107
10th Percentile £351 £296 £250
25th Percentile £444 £358 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -6.31% -15.50%
75th Percentile £594 £543 £588
90th Percentile £688 £621 £641
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.26%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £91.69 £21.00
% change year-on-year -61.83% +336.62% -1.20%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +7 145 £519 +15.72% 37
Doncaster -7 1 - - 7
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (9.33%) Confluence
2 11 (7.33%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.33%) SharePoint
4 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (3.33%) Apache
6 4 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (2.67%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (48.00%) AWS
2 66 (44.00%) GCP
3 28 (18.67%) GitHub
4 25 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (12.67%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (10.67%) Entra ID
7 15 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 11 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (5.33%) OpenShift
10 7 (4.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.33%) PowerApps
12 5 (3.33%) Serverless
13 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (2.00%) Azure Storage
14 3 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (2.00%) LangSmith
14 3 (2.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.33%) Network Security
2 8 (5.33%) Firewall
3 6 (4.00%) SAN
4 5 (3.33%) DNS
5 3 (2.00%) Kerberos
5 3 (2.00%) NAS
6 2 (1.33%) LAN
6 2 (1.33%) Multicast
6 2 (1.33%) VPN
6 2 (1.33%) VSAN
6 2 (1.33%) WAN
7 1 (0.67%) DHCP
7 1 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.33%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.00%) Big Data
3 11 (7.33%) Power BI
4 7 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.33%) Neo4j
6 5 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.67%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.67%) Redis
7 4 (2.67%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.67%) Trino
8 3 (2.00%) Metadata
8 3 (2.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.00%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.67%) Parquet
10 1 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 33 (22.00%) Jenkins
2 21 (14.00%) JIRA
3 12 (8.00%) Git
4 8 (5.33%) GitLab
5 7 (4.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.67%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.00%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (2.00%) Fiddler
8 2 (1.33%) Gatling
8 2 (1.33%) JMeter
8 2 (1.33%) MSBuild
8 2 (1.33%) Postman
8 2 (1.33%) Selenium
8 2 (1.33%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.33%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.67%) Gradle
9 1 (0.67%) JUnit
9 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.67%) Maven
9 1 (0.67%) NeoLoad
General
1 54 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 51 (34.00%) Finance
3 21 (14.00%) Banking
4 14 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.67%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.00%) Law
7 5 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.67%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.33%) Billing
10 2 (1.33%) Legal
11 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (20.00%) Lead
2 24 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (15.33%) Architect
4 12 (8.00%) Developer
5 8 (5.33%) Cloud Architect
5 8 (5.33%) Consultant
5 8 (5.33%) Security Engineer
5 8 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (4.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 7 (4.67%) Data Engineer
6 7 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (4.67%) Lead DevOps
6 7 (4.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) .NET Developer
7 6 (4.00%) Analyst
7 6 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 6 (4.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.00%) REST
2 11 (7.33%) .NET
2 11 (7.33%) Kafka
3 9 (6.00%) ASP.NET
3 9 (6.00%) SailPoint
4 8 (5.33%) AngularJS
4 8 (5.33%) JSON
4 8 (5.33%) OAuth
5 7 (4.67%) .NET Core
5 7 (4.67%) OpenID
5 7 (4.67%) React
5 7 (4.67%) Web Services
6 6 (4.00%) PySpark
6 6 (4.00%) SAML
7 5 (3.33%) LDAP
7 5 (3.33%) Spring
7 5 (3.33%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.67%) FIDO
8 4 (2.67%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.67%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.67%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.33%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (10.67%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.33%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.33%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.67%) AI Agents
5 7 (4.67%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.33%) Replication
7 5 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.00%) Blog
9 3 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (2.00%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (2.00%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (2.00%) EMC VNX
9 3 (2.00%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.00%) Linux
2 12 (8.00%) Windows
3 11 (7.33%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.00%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.67%) CoreOS
6 4 (2.67%) VMS
7 3 (2.00%) AIX
8 2 (1.33%) Android
8 2 (1.33%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (49.33%) CI/CD
2 70 (46.67%) DevOps
3 44 (29.33%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (23.33%) Observability
5 34 (22.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (19.33%) AI
7 28 (18.67%) DevSecOps
8 27 (18.00%) Analytics
9 25 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (14.67%) Agile
12 22 (14.67%) Containerisation
13 20 (13.33%) Data Protection
13 20 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 19 (12.67%) Cloud Security
14 19 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (12.67%) Microservices
14 19 (12.67%) Test Automation
15 18 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 47 (31.33%) Python
2 32 (21.33%) SQL
3 28 (18.67%) Java
4 16 (10.67%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.33%) Bash
6 10 (6.67%) C#
7 9 (6.00%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.33%) Groovy
9 5 (3.33%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.67%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.00%) Go
11 3 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.33%) Bicep
13 1 (0.67%) Cypher
13 1 (0.67%) Scala
13 1 (0.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (6.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (6.00%) Degree
2 6 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (4.00%) CISSP
3 5 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 5 (3.33%) CCSP
3 5 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.67%) CCSK
4 4 (2.67%) CISM
5 3 (2.00%) NCDA
5 3 (2.00%) NCIE
5 3 (2.00%) OCP
5 3 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.67%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.67%) RHCA
6 1 (0.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.33%) QA
2 7 (4.67%) NIST
3 5 (3.33%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.33%) GDPR
5 2 (1.33%) GRC
6 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.67%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (21.33%) Docker
2 24 (16.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.67%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (4.00%) vSphere
6 5 (3.33%) NFS
7 3 (2.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (2.00%) SRDF
7 3 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.67%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.67%) Ceph
8 1 (0.67%) KVM
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 58 (38.67%) Kubernetes
2 41 (27.33%) Terraform
3 23 (15.33%) Ansible
4 13 (8.67%) Grafana
4 13 (8.67%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.00%) Kustomize
5 6 (4.00%) SnapMirror
6 5 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.00%) Argo
8 3 (2.00%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (1.33%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (1.33%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.33%) SnapVault
9 2 (1.33%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.67%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.67%) Istio
10 1 (0.67%) QRadar
10 1 (0.67%) WMI
Vendors
1 48 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.33%) Databricks
3 10 (6.67%) Google
4 9 (6.00%) CyberArk
4 9 (6.00%) VMware
5 8 (5.33%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.00%) Centrify
6 6 (4.00%) Cisco
6 6 (4.00%) NetApp
6 6 (4.00%) Splunk
7 4 (2.67%) Okta
7 4 (2.67%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.67%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.67%) Veeam
8 3 (2.00%) 3PAR
8 3 (2.00%) Aruba
8 3 (2.00%) Brocade
8 3 (2.00%) Dell
8 3 (2.00%) IBM